How Designers Use a Moodboard for Rendering

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In this video from the 2025 Real Simple Idea House, designers show how they use a moodboard to guide their rendering process. From choosing color palettes and materials to visualizing textures and light, see how a well-crafted moodboard helps bring design concepts to life before a single piece is built.

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00:00When your expectation meets reality. I started with the walls. I wanted a moody, chic, sophisticated

00:06color, but I also knew I wanted texture, hence Venetian plaster. Next, the furniture. Always

00:11start with the bed. I wanted to lean into natural materials with the walnut bed, and I also wanted

00:16to keep it simple and modern. And then the rug. You need something soft under your feet when you're

00:21walking, and it also adorbs sound. Next, we went with this globe-like fixture that has three

00:27different points of light, and it also brings the eye up. After the light fixture, two bedside

00:33tables. I don't like matching furniture. So one is in travertine, and one is like a burl wood.

00:39We're going to do a sconce on one side, and a table lamp on the other. So you have multiple

00:44sources of light, but they're all at different heights. I like to use drapes because they just

00:49soften up the space, and this is where we'll repeat the color of the rug. Here, I wanted to pop a color,

00:54and to really play with what I like to call, it's like your grandma's quilt, but you make

00:58it modern. To bring it home, the picture above the bed. Now, it is tiny. I love like a little

01:05peekaboo window moment, and the colors really just pull everything together. And again, I

01:09like playing with asymmetry. And in the corner, a little greenery will go a long way just to

01:15add life to the space. I wanted the space to feel moody, serene, sophisticated, and chic,

01:20to appeal to multiple people, and not just one particular type of person.

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